1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,880 Welcome to the podcast of the White Church in Adelaide, South 2 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:13,520 Australia. Keep. 3 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,800 Praying for the guys that are still in South Africa. 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,200 So Dave and Hilary are going to be flying back. 5 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:19,600 I think it's Wednesday or Thursday. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,200 They're going to enjoy some time as a family at a game park. 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,360 So for those of you who haven't been to South Africa, that 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,760 literally means just, it's not like games, it's like counting 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:31,760 the children to make sure they leave because it's like where 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,560 there's wild animals, so wild lions, wild elephants and stuff 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:36,880 like that. So they're going to a place 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,120 called Pillensburg, which is a pretty cool place with swimming 13 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,200 pools and there's stuff. So it's a bit of a resorty, but 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,760 it's also wild animals. So be praying for them for a 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,800 refreshing time. Dan and Chantel are to church 16 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,440 this morning. Yeah, 7 hours behind this 17 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,960 morning and then they'll be flying back tonight. 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:55,400 So pray for their travels as well. 19 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,680 Thank you for looking after my wife and my kids. 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:04,680 I really did appreciate it. Guys, it's so hard, but I want 21 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,400 to encourage you guys as well. So you know how we gathered just 22 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,560 before we all flew out and we just asked what, what are we 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,280 feeling God would do? And what I was encouraged is we 24 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,240 had words like it's time and that is being handed over and 25 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:19,880 stuff like that. And you know, we get to the 26 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,480 Global Equip and the second session, somebody stands up in 27 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,120 the title of the message, it's time. 28 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,720 And we're just like, sheesh. And then a couple of sessions 29 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,640 later, somebody's like, man, I feel like battens are being 30 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:35,600 handed over. A little church in Adelaide, 31 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,480 Australia. Hearing the voice of God. 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,800 That's not just happening here, but happening globally. 33 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:45,400 I tell you, isn't that amazing? Just like God would Global, God 34 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,160 would speak to a little church in Adelaide and said, this is 35 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,880 what I want to do, not just here, but what I'm doing around 36 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,440 the world. So I want to encourage you guys 37 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,440 like let's, let's lean into the voice of God because he's 38 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,240 speaking to us not just for our context, but actually globally. 39 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,880 And that's awesome. So the prayers we pray, we pray 40 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,960 for us, we pray for them, which is super cool. 41 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,960 And something else that we shared and was a guy got up 42 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,200 called Leo. Many of us may know of Leo. 43 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,640 He leads a church in Sydney in GGC Glorious Gospel Church. 44 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,680 And he actually spoke about multiplication, which is a 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,680 really cool word, but he reflected on something that I'm 46 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,440 going to share this morning. And that was that we had, as I 47 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,000 said, over 5000 people. There was 34 nations 48 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,040 represented. And NCML and New Covenant 49 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,800 Ministries International has been going for 45 years, which I 50 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,400 didn't realize, but it started with a group of just a few men 51 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,640 getting together and saying, what does the Bible say of how 52 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:44,680 we should do church? And 45 years later, that group 53 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,600 of men multiplied and is now working into hundreds of nations 54 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,760 around the world. Countless people are being 55 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,840 saved. Churches have been planted, 56 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,680 nations have been taken for the gospel. 57 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,280 And I say all that to say that we're Dudley's going to be 58 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,280 sharing this morning. And he was one of those original 59 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,280 men in that small group that just went, what does the Bible 60 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:05,680 say? And then multiplied and 61 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,680 multiplied and multiplied and multiplied. 62 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,200 So I'd encourage this this morning, just open your hearts 63 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,600 because this is just not just somebody, our church, but 64 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,480 somebody who has really committed to just, hey, what 65 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,640 does the Bible teach? And we've seen incredible fruit 66 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:23,080 over 45 years around the globe. And so it's an incredible 67 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,640 privilege to have him share this morning. 68 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,600 So would you come up, Dudley? Father, we thank you for this 69 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:32,920 gift that you've placed in our church. 70 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,240 We thank you for the words that you've spoken to him. 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,800 You've shared upon him the gifting that you've put upon his 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,760 life, not just impact us here, but the lasting fruit around the 73 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,440 globe. We just pray just the word that 74 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:49,680 you've given him for us this morning would bear fruit in our 75 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,720 hearts just as it has borne fruit over the last 45 years 76 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,280 around the world. We thank you in Jesus name, 77 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,520 Amen. Amen. 78 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,840 Thank you. It's always a privilege to share 79 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,760 the word of God anywhere in the world with any group of people. 80 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,600 But for us, this is our home church. 81 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,840 And it's. Yeah, it's like a double 82 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,120 privilege as far as I'm concerned. 83 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,560 Just excuse my throat. I'm not sick anymore. 84 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,160 I was last weekend and I'm still just getting over the clearing 85 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,320 of my chest. So I'm going to have to use this 86 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,800 mic and sometimes sound like I'm shouting when my voice gets a 87 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,280 little lower. I don't have the strongest voice 88 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,920 anymore. Age catches up with you and 89 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,200 changes lots of things, but I felt like I just need to say to 90 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,360 you before we start this morning that this church is a very 91 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,520 precious church to God, Very special people. 92 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,360 I don't know that we know that as deeply as God feels His love 93 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:03,760 for us, most of us have walked a long, long road with God. 94 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,520 Some of us it's a little shorter, but God has been 95 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:13,360 faithful to every one of us at every level, all the time, no 96 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,160 matter what. We've blown it. 97 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,320 We've been in victory, we've been in defeat, we've been 98 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,200 strong, we've been weak, But God has never changed, and His love 99 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,000 never changes. It's a wonderful thing to know 100 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:34,200 that nothing in all the world, not even sin, if it's just 101 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,080 simply confessed, nothing can separate us from His love, the 102 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,080 love of God, which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. 103 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,280 Nothing. Sometimes we come and we feel 104 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,360 like we've blown it even sometimes on the way to the 105 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,000 meeting and therefore we feel we're unworthy. 106 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:53,120 Let me just clear something up for all of us. 107 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,320 Again, you all know this, but let me clear it up for you. 108 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,320 You'll never be worthy and nor will I. 109 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:06,640 There was only one and that was Jesus and because of His 110 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:11,560 worthiness, God would just wants to keep pouring love and life 111 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,480 into us all. So I'm going to pick up this 112 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,800 morning from something Justin was sharing the scripture he 113 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,000 used anyway just before he left and not I think it was a Sunday 114 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,480 before he left and it's found in Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 115 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,160 10. If you'll just turn with me now, 116 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:36,120 I did give my scriptures to Hillary and somehow or the 117 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:40,120 other, those scriptures have not got to Peter today for him to be 118 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:44,200 able to be ahead of us. So I'm going to have to ask you 119 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,360 to turn in some of the scriptures If when I'll give 120 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,120 them if he hasn't got them up quick enough. 121 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,520 We're going to have to take a little more time looking up in 122 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,800 our Bibles. If you can get them up quick 123 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,760 enough. He's a better man than I than I 124 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:03,200 am. All right, Ephesians chapter 3 125 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,120 before we read it. And from verse 10, we're going 126 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,760 to read to the 13th verse when we're trying to train people 127 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,920 that can be our kids, people in the workplace, whatever it is. 128 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,480 So often we share with them the what they should do, the how 129 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,280 they should do it, when they should do it, where they should 130 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,920 do it, etcetera. But we very often forget to tell 131 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,080 them the why. Why should you do what I'm going 132 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,560 to tell you, where I tell you, etcetera, etcetera. 133 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,680 Even telling, bringing up our kids and so many of us as 134 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,760 preachers, that's our problem as well. 135 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,640 We tell people what to do. We tell them what the Bible 136 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,600 tells them they need to do what God says. 137 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,000 But very often we we neglect to tell them why. 138 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:51,680 And that's what we want to look at this morning. 139 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,480 And so if you'll turn with me, if you have your Bibles open and 140 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,120 I don't appear, you've got it up there. 141 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,240 God's intention. This is what you were preaching 142 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,880 just before you left. His intention was that now 143 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:11,000 that's today forever. That now is tomorrow. 144 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,640 When we get tomorrow, that's now. 145 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,200 It was now when it was written 2000 years ago. 146 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,560 God lives in the eternal now. God is not a time space 147 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:28,800 creature, we are God. What happened 10,000 years ago 148 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,640 is as if it were happening right now. 149 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,440 And if Jesus were to tarry long enough, if it was 10,000 years 150 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:39,960 to come, which I doubt could ever happen, it's just God 151 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,360 doesn't see that as future. It's now for God. 152 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,280 He lives in the eternal now. So all of his truth is the 153 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:50,720 eternal now. All he's promised is now 154 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,120 everything. And so his intention was that 155 00:08:54,120 --> 00:09:00,480 through the church, that's us. That's the strongest believer on 156 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:05,040 planet Earth, and that's the weakest believer on planet 157 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,760 earth. If we've trusted Christ, we are 158 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,600 part of the church. Even if we want to cut ourselves 159 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,840 off from the church, we still remain part of his body. 160 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,760 We can sulk, we can stay away, we can do what we like. 161 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,400 We can strictly ignore people. Whatever we're we're still part 162 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,880 of the church. I want that to sink in. 163 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,880 Don't think because you sulk or do whatever you do, you're no 164 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,640 longer one of us. And don't think because you've 165 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,880 done something wrong against one of us, that you no longer one of 166 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:49,720 us, you with me. And what was his intention was 167 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,520 that the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the 168 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,640 rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. 169 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,200 That's the demon powers. Satan knows he's defeated. 170 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,840 He's like a roaring lion, but he has lost his teeth. 171 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,640 He can still bite and hurt just from the strength of his jaw, 172 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:15,880 like a lion with our teeth, but he can't RIP us apart. 173 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:21,320 He knows he's beaten. He knows this Bible better than 174 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,960 most of us. He knows what God intention is. 175 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,040 But the problem is that it only is. 176 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,280 It's only going to be through the church. 177 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,800 It's not that just because it's written in the Bible. 178 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,240 It's through the church that the manifold wisdom of God is going 179 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,200 to be made known to these real principalities of these 180 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,040 authorities in the heavenly realms. 181 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,720 If we could go to the next verse please, according to his eternal 182 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,360 purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord next 183 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:58,120 verse please in Him and through faith in him we may approach God 184 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:04,640 with freedom and confidence. You know that Jesus done done. 185 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:07,000 We're going to carry on with that. 186 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:09,880 Jesus actually said this so we he invites us. 187 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:14,960 He says come boldly, boldly, not cringingly. 188 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,920 Isn't that a wonderful thing? I'm going to finish that the 189 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,120 verse that I'm starting to quote, but isn't it wonderful to 190 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,800 think God, I've just sinned so badly right that very moment, 191 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,560 but I can get off and get on my knees and come boldly don't even 192 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,280 have to come cringing the oh God, I'm a Richard man. 193 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,960 I can come boldly knowing I am that, but I can approach that 194 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:42,040 throne of grace every time I need it to obtain mercy and help 195 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,960 every time I have need. That's what the scripture says. 196 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:53,960 I hope these things just well, not just here, they're here 197 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,960 moving to the next verse 3. We can approach God with and I 198 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,120 ask you therefore not to be discouraged because of my 199 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,440 sufferings for you, which are your glory. 200 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:12,160 Now the subject I want to cover this morning is why the reason 201 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:18,640 why we come to church, church meetings, we call it come to 202 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:20,280 church. We are the church. 203 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,840 We can't come to ourselves. We come to meet. 204 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,160 Why do we come to meet? And most of us have been around 205 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:34,880 for a long time and so many of us, if not all of us have known 206 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,480 some of these things that I'm going to share with you. 207 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:42,120 The why. But sometimes, through just 208 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,840 life's pressures, all the things that come upon us, the demands, 209 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:52,120 the conflicts, things that are said lightheartedly or said to 210 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,320 hurt, whatever, all these things are making an impression upon 211 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,560 us. You sit and watch the TV. 212 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,000 Everything you see there is making an impact upon your life. 213 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:06,000 And all those things are geared by the devil to discourage you, 214 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,480 to make you feel disqualified. Just think about it. 215 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,320 Why then do we come to meet these to meet on a Sunday? 216 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,640 And I'm going to be speaking primarily on a Sunday. 217 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:28,720 Our Sunday meeting, that's the first day of the week, was when 218 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,520 the Church of the New Testament actually met. 219 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,520 Not on the Sabbath, on the on the Sunday. 220 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:39,960 We are not Sabbatarians. It's the Lord's Day. 221 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:43,240 It's a special day. This is the day that the Lord 222 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,480 has made. It's every day, but he set aside 223 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,080 one day for us to worship and he says that some have, some will 224 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,400 worship other days than we do, but there has to be a day when 225 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,920 the church gets together. And in this country, by and 226 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,920 large, this is the day we do it, the first day of the week. 227 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:06,600 So why do we do this? In order to for me to try and 228 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,040 answer that, I want to just say that each one of us has to grasp 229 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:14,520 afresh this morning that there are a number of reasons why 230 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,720 people have descended into, I'm going to use that word, if you 231 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,600 don't mind me, descended into the reason why they come to 232 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,840 church. That's the first thing. 233 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,600 And the second thing is, if we're going to understand why we 234 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,640 need to come together and meet together on a Sunday like we do, 235 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,080 we need to understand what the Bible says we should be doing 236 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:41,920 and weigh it up with what we are doing. 237 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:47,640 Are you with me? So the first one is what are 238 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:53,000 these models, these examples that people began to set that 239 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,800 have now made? This is how church is done in 240 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,200 different places. And I've got a number of them 241 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:00,880 here. I think it's 8 or 9 very 242 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,080 quickly. Some of them I've shared with 243 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,280 people before, some of you will have heard some of them. 244 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,920 The first one is this, people have developed this kind of 245 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,200 strategy, this model, this modus operandi. 246 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,560 First one is what I call the pastoral church. 247 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,560 And everyone of you know that you want to be pastored you 248 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:23,400 because pastoring past being pastored is being cared for. 249 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,240 And we all want to be cared for. And God has appointed pastors to 250 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,920 pastor us, but He's also appointed us to care for one 251 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,960 another. If you read through Ezekiel 34 252 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,760 and some of those Old Testament things about the sheep and the 253 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,960 shepherds, you see that sheep should not be butting one 254 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,160 another, hurting one another. They should be caring for one 255 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,200 another. So we've developed a caring 256 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,880 model. That's good in a sense, but it's 257 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,960 in itself it's inadequate. And so many churches are just 258 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,720 pastoral. I come to the meeting, I want to 259 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,200 be cared for. I want everybody to fuss all 260 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,160 over me. It just gets worse and worse and 261 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,000 worse. And you understand this, that we 262 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,520 move from it being hymn centered to us centered. 263 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,520 And so many churches, that's what it's about. 264 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,400 They come to a meeting, they go home and say I did not get my 265 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,040 needs met. It's all about me. 266 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,840 I just want to say this very quickly, then I'll move to the 267 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,440 second one. No matter how bad the preacher 268 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,600 preaches and how things go in the meeting, if you believe in 269 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,240 the love of God, God will care for your needs. 270 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,240 I remember up in Zimbabwe once I went to a church up in Kariba, 271 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,840 like Kariba was the only church he was and I was we were not 272 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,280 preaching that Sunday morning, we're preaching Sunday night. 273 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,280 I went to this meeting and this man got up in all these robes 274 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,680 and garments and all the candles were burning and everything was 275 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,880 going on. And I don't know what he was 276 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,360 preaching about. He outside of the fact that he 277 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,560 said he used that scripture that who our names are engraved on 278 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,880 the palms of God's hands. God so ministered so deeply to 279 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:14,000 me that man did not know Christ. He didn't know Christ, but I got 280 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,040 deeply ministered to. Why? 281 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,720 Because you go to church at meetings knowing that this is 282 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,920 what God wants us to do and he'll meet our needs. 283 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:28,000 But we should never make that the reason why we go to church. 284 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,640 That's just part of the blessing that comes with doing what God 285 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,360 says. All right, Second one is that 286 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:39,440 people like the priestly kind of type of church where everybody 287 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,760 gets a chance to play their part, say what they want to, to 288 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:45,440 be heard. And their church is just like 289 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,880 that. Some of them started off really 290 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,400 well when they believed in the priesthood of all ministries, of 291 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,320 all the priests, of all believers. 292 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,880 But slowly but surely it degenerated until we begin to 293 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:02,360 give stories about ourselves, made it all about us, our needs, 294 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,840 get the focus on us instead of Him. 295 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,120 And that's the priestly church and their churches like that all 296 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:12,400 over. When I get a chance, I'm going 297 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:16,200 to jump in and say what I want to say, whether they like it or 298 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,400 not. Whether the problem is that even 299 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,720 sometimes when we speak about the gifts of the Spirit, some of 300 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:29,280 those gifts or what what is said to be gifts have no valid reason 301 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:31,200 for having been expressed in that meeting. 302 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,480 But we act like God spoke. And so eventually we just 303 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,560 descend into this priestly church. 304 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:42,360 The third one is the preaching church. 305 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:46,920 And so many people starts off well, we love the word of God, 306 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,320 but then we want to hear from a man or a woman who can, who's 307 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:58,480 really got the gift of the gab that excites us that no, I mean, 308 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,920 sometimes I've, I've been in meetings where I, I've just been 309 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,760 astounded, flabbergasted by the, the man's or woman's gift of the 310 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,240 God, the way they can pronounce things and say things, but I 311 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:12,600 don't know what they're actually saying. 312 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,920 Just wow. And so you find these huge 313 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,480 churches around the world that when that preacher leaves, 314 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,560 people just dissipate and gone was just a preaching center. 315 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:28,560 It wasn't a church. And all of us want to hear the 316 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,600 word of God, but we want to hear it under the anointing of the 317 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,200 Spirit of God. We want to hear it where God 318 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,600 gives revelation. It's not just how well can you 319 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,920 communicate. And their churches like that all 320 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:47,040 over the world, Some of them are in the 10s of thousands because 321 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:51,240 of the preacher, not because of it being a church. 322 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:57,880 It's just a gathering point #4 people that I call it the 323 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,240 praying church, people who like to pray, they only want to pray. 324 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,640 There's not enough prayer in this church, so I'm leaving. 325 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:09,560 People say we need to pray more, and I've essentially what that 326 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,200 wild prayer is. It is absolutely essential. 327 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,840 In the end, what it degenerates into is why aren't you praying 328 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:21,800 for me? There needs to be more prayer 329 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,440 about me. And so it moves from Christ 330 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,840 centered slowly but surely. None of none of this is 331 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,480 intentional until it becomes all about me again. 332 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,480 Praying churches. Now all of those things are good 333 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:39,240 and needed in the church, but in themselves they're not enough. 334 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,120 Then firstly there's the praise churches and these are the 335 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:50,880 people who want super bands, musicians, professional singers. 336 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,160 They want everything to just go well. 337 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,040 I want to get excited by the music and I just want to sing 338 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,360 song after song after song after song. 339 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,760 And it doesn't. It's not coming from here. 340 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,000 It's the band. I mean, I watched the mosh, but 341 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,240 you know that. Well, I can't do it anymore with 342 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,240 them. I'm sorry. 343 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,760 I'm still. But all this bouncing up and 344 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:17,960 down, that is just what happens in all the Worldly Raves 345 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,320 gatherings when superstars are trying to excite the people. 346 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,240 Get them going. And then the church brought it 347 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,760 in and so now we bounce around too. 348 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,680 And if we can bounce around enough, and I'm not against 349 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,040 that. I used to bounce around when I 350 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,000 could. I'm a little too old to bounce 351 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,880 now, but I'm just saying that that's what it becomes. 352 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:44,560 So that if it's not exciting enough for me, I go looking 353 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:47,360 elsewhere. That's the reason why they come 354 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:51,720 to church, the praise churches and then we get the presence 355 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,840 churches. They wanting the Holy Spirit to 356 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,160 manifest himself in a way that they want. 357 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,240 And if that doesn't manifest then they go looking for what 358 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,120 elsewhere. That's one of one of the largest 359 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:09,760 churches around the world is that group of people that move 360 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:14,520 from 1 so-called presence church to another trying to find this 361 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,480 presence instead of looking at what does the Bible talk about 362 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,160 the presence of God. You know, in the presence of God 363 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,640 there is fullness of joy and joy lusts. 364 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,920 Because if there's a if God's present in the meeting and I 365 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:34,080 walk out having been touched by God, God's present with me in a 366 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,240 very real way. Anyway. 367 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:39,560 I don't need the crowd. I don't need certain 368 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:44,040 manifestations to prove God's present, but they have 369 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:48,840 prescribed certain manifestations and they're all 370 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,240 over the world today. They're the second largest 371 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,520 church in the world. The largest 1 is what I the next 372 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,600 one I'm going to talk about. It's the phantom church. 373 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,720 What do I mean by phantom church? 374 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,040 It's the church just moves from one place to the other. 375 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,760 It doesn't feel like it's committed to anything. 376 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,320 It doesn't believe in leadership. 377 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,840 It doesn't have to roll up or be faithful at prayer meetings or 378 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,200 anything else. It's just, I just do what I 379 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,560 like, but I love God. We meet when we want to, we do 380 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,560 as we please, etcetera, etcetera. 381 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,640 The phantom church, they are all over the world. 382 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,880 That's the biggest church, the church group that just moves 383 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,880 from one place to another and never settles down and believe. 384 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,760 You see, to me, a group of people meeting two or three 385 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,360 together together in, in, in Christ's name is not a church. 386 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,880 It's a church when you have leadership. 387 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,280 It's a church when we submit and surrender to authority. 388 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,560 If we will not submit and surrender to authority, have 389 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,600 leaders. Godly, God appointed, God chosen 390 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,520 leaders. We're not a church. 391 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,560 We're just a group of people that meet and thank God we do 392 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,280 and we can. We can meet in our homes. 393 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,680 We can meet where we like, but that's not a church. 394 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:16,440 It can be part of the church. I hope I'm making sense and I'm 395 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,720 not being too hard or harsh. All right. 396 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,760 Then also the number 8. So I think that was the 7th 1. 397 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,320 The 8th 1 is what I call the professional church. 398 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:31,120 The professional church. What does that mean? 399 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,000 Well, everything is done like it's a business. 400 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:40,080 We do not do that or help that person because we, our budget 401 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:45,680 doesn't allow it. You know, when the church's 402 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,240 budget dictates what you get involved in, it's finished. 403 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,920 You might as well pack up because God only responds not to 404 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:59,200 budgets. He responds to faith, and faith 405 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,360 is the substance of seeing things that have not come about 406 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,800 yet. I hope you get with them. 407 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,360 But the professional church anyway, everything, everything's 408 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,400 excellent. It's got the best of this, the 409 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,240 best of that, all of it's equipment, all of its sound 410 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:20,280 systems, audio systems, everything is just so 411 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,160 professional. It's all worked out so great. 412 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:26,720 Nothing ever goes wrong. And then people are just 413 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:33,480 switched on by that and then we move on quickly to the one that 414 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:39,560 is biblical and it's called the prophetic Apostolic Church. 415 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:45,160 And I think if I got it right, David preached on the prophetic 416 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,320 Apostolic to some degree last Sunday. 417 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,280 I wasn't. Yeah, I was sick and, and, and 418 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,400 told me when she got home what happened there. 419 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,400 So the prophetic Apostolic or the Apostolic prophetic? 420 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,840 I've just used prophetic first because I've tried to keep all 421 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:03,040 those peas because you didn't pick it up. 422 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,760 And I only use alliteration so that you can remember easier. 423 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,960 There's no other reason for it. All right, So it's the prophetic 424 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:20,000 Apostolic Church and to be prophetic and to be Apostolic, 425 00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:22,640 you've got to be able to see the future, but you've also got to 426 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,920 be be able to become the future. It's now you've seen the future 427 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,600 and not becoming it. The prophetic Apostolic Church. 428 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,160 The word Apostolic means to go, the sent one. 429 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:42,440 It means you don't stay, you go. Now, having said all of that, I 430 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,400 want to come back to all of that in a moment. 431 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,240 So that's the first thing. If we're going to understand the 432 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:52,800 why, we got to understand how these other things developed and 433 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,520 why they developed and why people are going to those 434 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,400 meetings, and yet they're so unbiblical. 435 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:04,000 So the second thing I said is that we've got to understand 436 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,400 what the New Testament teaches should happen in a church 437 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,560 meeting. And I don't know if we can read 438 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,640 all these scriptures. So I'm going to just this is the 439 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,720 New Testament, the Old Testament, and what happens in 440 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:19,720 heaven when Jesus is on the throne and the angels and the 441 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:25,000 living creatures and the redeemed and all of the prophets 442 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,880 and the patriarchs and even the apostles all worship with us. 443 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,280 Can you imagine that there's a day coming when Paul, Barnabas, 444 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:42,920 Timothy, Peter, James, John, Moses, Abraham, David, the king, 445 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,840 all of these people, we're going to see them. 446 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,520 I mean, just imagine you're bumping into this, just walking 447 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,720 through this crowd and hi, hi. How are you going, Paul? 448 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,400 So that's what you look like. I mean, that's serious. 449 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,600 What's going to happen, because it says in the Scriptures, when 450 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,960 Jesus comes back, he's going to take us to be with him. 451 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,640 And when he takes us to be with him, we're going to see him 452 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,200 first of all as he really is. And then you and I are going to 453 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,200 be like him. Can you imagine? 454 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,800 What does that mean? You and I are going to be like 455 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,600 him. Here I am standing up with so 456 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,240 hips. You know, we're getting older. 457 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,240 What? Whatever the case. 458 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,000 And then all I mean, I'm going to just be like Jesus. 459 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,600 He's never been sick. He's never got old. 460 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,240 He's never forgotten a thing. Memory is not part of the 461 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,560 problem for him. We're going to be like him. 462 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,160 Just imagine that. But anyway, let me try and get 463 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,320 back to all of this. So it's going to be, what is the 464 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,320 Old Testament? What is the New Testament? 465 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,880 What is it? The, the redeemed? 466 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,200 What do they do in heaven? Why this is what it is Psalm 467 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,360 149. We will read just that Psalm and 468 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,600 I think many of you know what's in there, but this is what the 469 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,720 Old Testament church, the redeemed of God's people, what 470 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:22,600 they how they what they even got involved in the trying to answer 471 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:28,600 the why Psalm. What did I say, 119, 149? 472 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,040 Sorry. I thought maybe Peter had got it 473 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,320 up there and then I wouldn't have to. 474 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,640 It's up there now. Praise the Lord now. 475 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,200 This is this is how the Old Testament gathered. 476 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,760 The Saints. Praise the Lord, Sing the Lord 477 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,040 to the Lord. A new song. 478 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,720 His praise in the assembly of the Saints. 479 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,000 That's those that look towards the cross. 480 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,520 We, the Saints that look back on the cross, they were the ones 481 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:07,720 that look forward to the cross. They knew that there was a Lamb 482 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,840 that was to be slain. They trusted God for their sins 483 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,600 to be forgiven, even though it was only in part until Jesus 484 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:17,960 came. But every one of those who died 485 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,600 in the Old Testament that looked forward to the Lamb will be with 486 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,680 us in heaven. So this is how they are. 487 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,560 Praise to the Lord, sing a new song. 488 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,240 What does that mean? That's what should be happening 489 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,880 in our meetings. I don't know about you, but in 490 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:41,120 my devotional time, I very often just sing my songs, my own 491 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,400 songs, songs that have never been sung before anywhere on the 492 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,200 earth. Do you? 493 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,760 And is it possible that that could happen for us as the 494 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,280 church, so we could start singing those songs? 495 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,560 You just come back from South Africa. 496 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,760 I remember one of the occasions when we were there when while we 497 00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,760 were singing and praising God, we heard the sound up in the 498 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:12,320 rafters of this huge auditorium. And the sound was angels 499 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:16,640 singing. And then the new songs that just 500 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,240 broke out as a result. Just all over that, the 501 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,440 auditorium, thousands upon thousands. 502 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,280 I don't know that there was one person that wasn't singing a new 503 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:29,560 song. What I'm trying to say is that's 504 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,960 what God wants to happen when we come to church. 505 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,280 That we that that we come not just to sing the songs, that the 506 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:43,320 person leading the the music section of our worship time that 507 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,240 they've chosen, but that we sing. 508 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,160 And you see, the church used to do that, but then people began 509 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:55,760 to sing silly songs and people began to do silly things with 510 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,040 those songs. And so the church clamped down 511 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,520 on that and said you can't do that. 512 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:06,040 And then it all became microphone, not there, only from 513 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,920 here. And it's a hard thing when the 514 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,600 church gets grows, it's easier while we're small, but as you 515 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,760 grow, it's harder and harder to just let people be free. 516 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,800 But that's what God wants. Again, that was how they worship 517 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,720 God in the Old Testament. And you'll see that's all how 518 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,760 they worship God in the New Testament. 519 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,920 But reading on peace, Psalm 149 again, let Israel rejoice in 520 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,680 their maker. Let the people of Zion and we 521 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,200 the Zion of God today be glad in their king. 522 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,920 That's how they worship. They were glad. 523 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,480 They were glad to be with God's people. 524 00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,800 They were glad that God was in their midst. 525 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,880 Reading on, please let them praise his name with. 526 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,280 That's it. Now. 527 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,000 There was a time when I used to be able to jump all around and 528 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,880 dance and carry on. I can't anymore, but I still can 529 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,400 sway. I could, you know, we'll get to 530 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:14,400 this, hopefully. I don't know that I'll ever get 531 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,240 there. But part of worship is to use 532 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,680 every part of your body, everything to praise God folk. 533 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,160 Is there anyone who cannot do this? 534 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:27,760 Put your hand up if you can't do this. 535 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,440 You see what's happened right now is I've swept away every 536 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,800 excuse you have as to why you don't. 537 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,800 Every one of us can. And in actual fact, Scripture 538 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,960 says we should lift up holy hands. 539 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,840 God wants us to use our these hands. 540 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,480 I think to my to my understanding from Scripture, 541 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,240 hands are for two things. One is to raise them up before 542 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,200 God and praise and prayer and the other just to discipline 543 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:07,440 your children. No, the rod hands are to give 544 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:15,800 love, comfort, encouragement. God doesn't slap people, he 545 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:22,120 disciplines them. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked 546 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,679 again. That's my problem as a preacher, 547 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,120 you pick up things in God and then you just, you get 548 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,639 sidetracked. Anyway, let's move on. 549 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,280 Let them back to that scripture, please. 550 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,960 Sorry, verse three. Let them praise His name with 551 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,000 dancing and make music to Him with tambourine and heart. 552 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,400 We can. Musical instruments are there 553 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:53,120 for God's glory, not for the musician, not even to excite us, 554 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:59,240 but we want to make everything available, use our whole bodies 555 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,600 and all the gifting to do what? To bring praise to God. 556 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:09,200 Moving on, please to verse 4. For the Lord takes delight in 557 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,520 his people. He crowns the humble with 558 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,120 salvation. Moving on, please let the Saints 559 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,880 rejoice in this honor and even sing for joy in their on their 560 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,440 beds. I just want to clear up 561 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:22,720 something here if you don't mind me. 562 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:27,440 Just decide to track. There is absolutely nothing 563 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,280 wrong with you lying on your bed and praising God. 564 00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:36,800 When I wake up every morning before I get out of bed, I start 565 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,760 to sing and praise God while I'm in bed. 566 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,280 I do that when I get into my study, but I give Him a good 567 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:48,760 dose of my praise before I even get up and go to the bathroom 568 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,880 and then to my study to study the word of God and do some 569 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:57,240 serious praying. We should be praising God If we 570 00:35:57,240 --> 00:36:00,360 can do that on our beds, how much more are we together and 571 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,160 their people here used to help us to connect with God. 572 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,680 Are you hearing me? Is that? 573 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,360 Let me just moving on. May the praise of God be in 574 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,600 their mouths and a double edged sword in their hands. 575 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,080 Why? To inflict vengeance on the 576 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,720 nations and punishments on the people. 577 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:28,160 To bind their kings with fetters and nobles with shackles of 578 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,120 iron. To carry out the sentence 579 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,880 written against him. This is the glory of all his 580 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,360 Saints. Praise the Lord. 581 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:41,120 You see, when the church begins to praise God like the scripture 582 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:46,400 says, it's like God can actually bind demonic powers. 583 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,560 And I believe that the more praise that ascends, the more 584 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,440 damage is inflicted upon the enemy. 585 00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,840 If all Anna and I pray this regularly when we pray together 586 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,200 in the morning that the church would just praise God and 587 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:09,240 worship God like the scripture says so that the church and the 588 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:14,440 nation, the whole nation can be. If if all the churches today 589 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:19,000 meeting in this country, we're to praise God just like this old 590 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,000 covenant part today. Do you know what would be 591 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:31,160 released in this nation? The bondage set, people set free 592 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:37,520 from this binding, these fetters that hold the people down, drug 593 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:42,440 addiction, all the stuff that goes on starts to break off. 594 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,240 That's what revival brings. I remember reading of these 595 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,760 Hiberdean revival on the Isle of Lewis. 596 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,920 Men were underground, big tough mints, black with coal working 597 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,720 underground, and the people were out there praising God. 598 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:05,640 Just a few. No, they didn't even go into the 599 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,320 mines, but these miners would come out of the mines and fall 600 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:14,520 on their knees in repentance. Not a soul, nobody preaching 601 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:15,880 nothing. Why? 602 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,280 Because God was revival had come. 603 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,280 God was breaking the fetters when the church, if you and I 604 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,120 could come to church on Sunday to the church meeting with a 605 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:30,600 heart like this, you don't know what will be happening in this 606 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,920 area and have just spread and spread and spread. 607 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,320 We don't have to wait for the whole church to do it. 608 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:39,560 Let's be the part of the church that will do it now, next 609 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,320 Sunday. You'll come with a different 610 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,920 heart, with a different aspect, understanding of what God wants 611 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,800 done in amongst these people. All right, well, we can't. 612 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,960 Psalm 150 is another one. If you're making a note, I won't 613 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,640 read it to you. One Corinthians, Chapter 11, 614 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:04,840 reading from verse 1 all the way through to chapter 14, verse 40. 615 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:10,640 All of those things are what happens in a meeting, how you 616 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,200 break bread, etcetera, etcetera, which are things I'd hope I 617 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:17,840 could cover. But all of those things are what 618 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,040 God wants to happen. Gifts of the Spirit. 619 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:26,560 I'm hoping we can get to that. All right, so that there are 620 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,680 other scriptures I'd like to have given you, but I'm going to 621 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,000 leave it. Well, maybe I can just say make 622 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,400 a note of Ephesians chapter 5 as well, please, verses 15 to 20. 623 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,040 So we're looking not only at Old Testament scriptures, but New 624 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,720 Testament Scriptures and then also Colossians chapter 3, 625 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:50,840 verses 16 and 17. So now let's get back to why do 626 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:58,200 we attend church, whatever happens here on a Sunday, And 627 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:03,640 those leaders need to hear that. We need to hear that whatever 628 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,520 happens here on a Sunday must have global. 629 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:16,720 Ramifications Global. Global means more than in our 630 00:40:16,720 --> 00:40:20,880 meeting. Global means more than Adelaide 631 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,440 and more than Australia. It means the whole globe. 632 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,400 So what takes place here? When we look at what can, what 633 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,560 the church should be doing, we can see we can have global 634 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,520 ramifications. You know Jesus when he walked 635 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:44,080 this earth, the 3 1/2 years that he equipped his disciples, Jesus 636 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,960 never stayed in one place for long. 637 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:52,760 He just moved around all over the place, city to city, village 638 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,720 to village. Sometimes he was out on the on 639 00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:00,200 the next to the sea. Other times he was in the hills 640 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,000 or the mountains. Do a global ramific. 641 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,160 Jesus was never just saying it's all about my little community. 642 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,360 I don't understand how people can call themselves community 643 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:15,520 churches. Christ Church is more than a 644 00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:21,040 community, the community. But the problem is that we may 645 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,240 be in a church that doesn't call themselves Community Church, but 646 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:34,080 we may have a community mind. It's no bigger than that, you 647 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,080 know, Jesus said this as the Father has sent me. 648 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,000 I was in heaven. I left where I was comfortable. 649 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,000 Can you imagine being Jesus, fellowshipping with the Father, 650 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,120 that intimacy, fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit, having all 651 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,720 the angels worship him, glorify him all the time. 652 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,920 And he left it as the Father has sent me. 653 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:07,160 So send are you. So Dudley, I didn't save you to 654 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,960 stay where you live. I saved you to send you wherever 655 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,760 I want to. Now it may only be down the 656 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:20,960 road, but it may be overseas. And if we and I don't catch 657 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,280 that, if we come with, I'm now 80 or 90 years old, I can't go 658 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,320 anymore. I'm I'm out of that one. 659 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:32,800 You've missed what God's about because even if you don't get to 660 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,160 go there, you can change the world globally. 661 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:42,400 If we come to the meetings, you see God's it's got to be the 662 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,320 meeting. God's not going to change the 663 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,120 world by Dudley sitting at home praying 24 hours a day. 664 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,400 If he was the monasteries would have changed the world long ago 665 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,040 where the monks cut themselves off from everything, lock 666 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,640 themselves away and they say they praying and nothing's 667 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:04,400 changing. It's the church through the 668 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:10,480 church, not through Dudley, not through Justin, not through 669 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:15,440 whatever your name is on your own, through us, the church. 670 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:21,400 So I hope you catch this is part of the reason why God wants the 671 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,920 church to meet. We haven't even got to the first 672 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:30,720 point really at the but God's intention was to go, never to 673 00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:35,000 gather, to gather, yes, but never with the intention of just 674 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:39,840 that's where it ends. God's intention was to give, not 675 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:48,560 to just gain hold on to get. So when you come to a meeting, 676 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,320 I'm not talking just about finances. 677 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,160 Now, when you come to a meeting, are you coming to just get or 678 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:59,000 you coming to give? It's global. 679 00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,920 All right, let me see if I can give you one or two of those. 680 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,760 Why do we attend church? I'm going to give you some 681 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,360 reasons. Now if you had your Bibles or we 682 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:16,000 won't read this now, but Acts chapter 2 verses 42 to 47 where 683 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,680 it talks about how why they get what they did when they gathered 684 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:22,240 together who had all things in common, etcetera. 685 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:26,120 But it seems they devoted themselves to the apostles 686 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:30,480 teaching to to our to fellowship, breaking of bread, 687 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,920 etcetera. But that's probably when they 688 00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,840 came together. Acts chapter 4, if you make 689 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:42,240 actually chapter 4 also, I think it's from about verse 43 to 47, 690 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:49,200 but also One Corinthians 11 verses 17 to 21, Paul speaks 691 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:53,000 about when you come together, your meetings do more harm than 692 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,680 good. Why? 693 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,880 Because we don't discern one another, why we should, 694 00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,760 etcetera. But I have all these things I'd 695 00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,720 love to have spoken about. Look again at One Corinthians 696 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:08,240 chapter 14, verses 28, verse 20 add to 39. 697 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:13,160 I'm going to skip a whole lot of this because I can see I'm just 698 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:18,240 running out of time here. So why do we come to church #1 699 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:20,840 all of this is found in what I've just said. 700 00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:26,920 That kind of foundation upon we come to encounter Christ. 701 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,640 Now I'm going to ask you none of these. 702 00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,640 This is to encourage you, but also to change. 703 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:37,640 Have I save a mind shift? How many of you sat up this 704 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,280 morning, got up and thought, I've got to get things done 705 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,280 because I want to go to the meeting. 706 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,720 I'm going to encounter Christ this morning. 707 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,240 I know I thank you for putting up your hands, but I'm just 708 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:52,760 asking you to answer these things in your, in your heart. 709 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:59,320 So few of God's people say one of the reasons I'm going to meet 710 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,000 him this morning is I'm going to encounter Christ. 711 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,400 That's why I attend meetings. I'm going to encounter him. 712 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:16,880 When I encounter Christ, my whole life is changed to 713 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:21,000 encounter Christ, let's listen carefully to me is to encounter 714 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,920 the King ruling and reigning in his Kingdom. 715 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:33,800 So the church needs to be a Kingdom hearted people and the 716 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,120 more that that church, if our church and so many of us have 717 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,600 been around for so long in Christ that this is so much more 718 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,120 easy for us at this stage than even these larger churches that 719 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,520 have got lots and lots of exciting new believers, which we 720 00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,920 want. But if we could just get back to 721 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,640 this thing. We're part of the Kingdom. 722 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,360 We have for the king, not for ourselves. 723 00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:03,120 We have for Jesus, we have that we can encounter him. 724 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,080 We're going to be equipped and enabled, envisioned. 725 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:13,280 We're going to be embraced by the king of all kings. 726 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,080 We want our church to be a Kingdom church. 727 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,400 I remember when Darren said to me right at the beginning of 728 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,760 that Kingdom life, when I started, we had to change the 729 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,800 name from something else. It was he said, we're going to 730 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:29,880 call the Kingdom off. I said it's a hard name to live 731 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:35,000 up to think about it, but that's what it is. 732 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,600 We should be Kingdom hearted people. 733 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,720 Life here should be Kingdom life in every church everywhere. 734 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:51,080 So do we come with that mindset? That's why God wants this little 735 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,600 white church together on Sunday. That's what I'm going to this 736 00:47:54,600 --> 00:48:01,640 morning, to encounter Christ, to see the King and his Kingdom. 737 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,240 That's the first thing. There's so much I'd like to say 738 00:48:05,240 --> 00:48:06,880 about that. The second thing, how are we 739 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,360 doing today? Time was we finish at 11, don't 740 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:14,360 we? No, go on, keep going. 741 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,840 No, I won't keep. I'll just maybe I'll finish on 742 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:24,480 this thing. We come to worship God now, 743 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,760 worship theologically. The theologians try to break up 744 00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,920 praise and worship. Praise really has more to do 745 00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,720 with his acts, his actions, his deeds. 746 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,600 The things that God does. Worship has more to do with his 747 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,880 attributes. He's who he is, not what he does 748 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:46,280 so much as who he is, what he is, all those wonderful 749 00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,720 attributes. And when I get up in the 750 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:51,400 morning, before I get up in the morning, I thank him. 751 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,640 I thank him that he's the King of kings, he's the Lord of 752 00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,280 Lords, he's the Prince of Peace, he's the lion of the tribe of 753 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,760 Judah. He is Emmanuel, God with us. 754 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,600 He's the alpha, he's the Omega, the beginning and the end. 755 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,200 He's the 1st and the last. And so I go through this loop 756 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,400 and Jesus Godfather, you are Jehovah Jireh, the Lord who 757 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,440 provides, and you provide all my needs through Christ. 758 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,760 You see, I linked the Kingdom, all my needs according to your 759 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:24,560 riches and glory through Christ Jesus Jehovah, Jehovah the Lord, 760 00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,040 my banner and your banner over me is love. 761 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:31,320 And you so love me and you so love the whole church that you 762 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:36,560 gave us Jesus Christ, the Son, that whoever believes in him who 763 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,800 will not perish but have everlasting life. 764 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,920 Jelova Shalom, the Lord, our peace and Jesus, you are the 765 00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,320 Prince of peace. You made peaceful. 766 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:52,040 You see, I hope you're getting what I'm trying to say here. 767 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,440 We to worship God for his worthiness. 768 00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,600 That word worship is actually a shortened version of the word 769 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,960 worth. Ship what he's worth. 770 00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:08,000 How much is God worth? Before I get out of bed in the 771 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,080 morning, I want God to know I believe you are worth 772 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,800 everything. You worth more than I can give 773 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,560 you. All the praise that I could give 774 00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,760 you all day long still would not match your worthiness. 775 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,880 But I praise you. I pray to look. 776 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:28,680 I just thank God for saving me. I thank God for that little 777 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:31,720 Presbyterian Church back in Boxburg in South Africa, the 778 00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:35,920 night I went there with the wrong motives to impress Anne's 779 00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:40,640 parents. And God saved my life, changed 780 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,760 me, and he called me and he equipped me and he commissioned 781 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:49,040 me and he said start this thing that was NCMI around them. 782 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,560 I thank God, God's listening every single day of my life. 783 00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,640 I think I've done that for now, 50 something years. 784 00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:02,240 Every day I thank God for you people that we have a little 785 00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:05,960 church so we can go to worship him, meet with God's people. 786 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:09,600 These are things that you and I need to be thanking God for 787 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:12,800 before we get out of bed. But how much more when we 788 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,440 actually together, the things we can thank Him for. 789 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:21,160 When we're singing our songs, are we praising God for his 790 00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,400 worthiness or we're singing songs? 791 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,200 If you get the chance to be a musician or you playing that 792 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:34,720 musical instrument as worship to God, or you're trying to be a 793 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:41,000 good musician, you know, there's a church back in that relates to 794 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,160 us still in America, that when we first went to America and we 795 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,640 got to know these people, when they first started their church, 796 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,400 we'd been there for a few years before they planted this church. 797 00:51:50,720 --> 00:51:58,640 They used to employ professional musicians, unsaved, to lead in 798 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,520 worship, and I try to say that now they're leading in the 799 00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,960 music, there's no worship, and that they don't worship God. 800 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:11,600 We need to be worshippers, folk. And I'm hoping that I'll get a 801 00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:16,280 chance to carry on with this because I've got about another. 802 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,080 I think about nearly 20 other reasons. 803 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,920 I think it's about 20. I don't want to exaggerate. 804 00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:26,040 May even be more, but I know I can't get through it. 805 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,840 So let's go home today. Can I just ask you in Jesus 806 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:38,000 name, I implore you, please come next Sunday to the Sunday church 807 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:42,320 meeting. Not to Sunday church to the 808 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:47,800 church meeting with some of God's purpose for our meeting 809 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:54,080 ringing in your heart. And we may do it badly and we 810 00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:58,880 might fell up, you know, like I would want to touch pray. 811 00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,360 Part of the reason we come is to pray and say we might pray 812 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:07,080 badly. But let's even if we don't pray 813 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:12,720 out aloud, we pray. Don't just leave it to the guy 814 00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:18,640 standing in the front. Pray when the preachers getting 815 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,800 into a little bit of strife in himself or herself battling, 816 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:26,160 trying to cross, get a hold of how to communicate. 817 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,440 Pray for them, but look at them. They don't know what they're 818 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,440 saying. They've forgotten. 819 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,000 As you get older, you forget more things. 820 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,040 I used to be able to stand up and just quote screams of 821 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,920 scripture. Now I can, I can still quote 822 00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,600 dreams of it, but not quite as much. 823 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:49,080 And and I forget where those verses are in the Bible now 82 824 00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:50,400 years old. You just get older. 825 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:54,880 You forget it when you see that, pray, Lord help them through 826 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:56,720 that. If you come in and you send 827 00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:58,800 someone's battling, pray for them. 828 00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:03,920 If they discourage, pray for them, etcetera. 829 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,680 Stand with me, please. I'm just taking too long. 830 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,400 You don't have to stand. I mean, just invitation. 831 00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:14,920 If you sit too long, just gets a little bit hard on parts of the 832 00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:18,320 body. Father, I lift my heart up to 833 00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:23,240 you with your people. We come before the throne of 834 00:54:23,240 --> 00:54:26,240 grace. Thank you that it is a throne of 835 00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:34,040 grace, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, something we can never 836 00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,720 pay for. The throne where you sit 837 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:41,480 enthroned. You have that sceptre in your 838 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,840 hand, that sceptre of righteousness, and to each and 839 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,480 everyone of us today, you're extending it, putting it out 840 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,800 like the king did in the Old Testament, saying you're 841 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,840 accepted. That's throne of grace. 842 00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:01,280 We come and worship you. We acknowledge that you and you 843 00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,760 alone are worthy. You're worthy of more than we 844 00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,080 can ever give you, Lord, all the praise, all the worship, all the 845 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,080 singing, all our efforts and energies, things that we feel 846 00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,760 are exhausting us. You're worth more than that. 847 00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:20,840 Your deeds are absolutely amazing to us that you could 848 00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:24,000 just say let there be. And all of this that we see 849 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,280 around us came into being and you could keep speaking and 850 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,960 upholding the whole entire universe, every star, every 851 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,400 planet, everything that's going on around us, all these things 852 00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,880 men have launched into the the universe. 853 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,360 They all upheld by the word of your power. 854 00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,520 You are all powerful, all knowing, all wise. 855 00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,440 There's nothing you can't do. There's nothing you don't know. 856 00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:53,440 You'll never, ever, ever find a thing that you can't do. 857 00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,840 Our problems are small when we bring them to you, and so is a 858 00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,880 church. We come before you, asking you. 859 00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:03,160 Break into our midst every time we meet. 860 00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:09,680 Break in and show yourself to be the King of all kings, the Lord 861 00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:13,680 of all Lords. Lord God Almighty, you are the 862 00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:17,320 King of the nations. Nations will bow before you one 863 00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,600 day. Every knee is going to one day 864 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,520 bow before Christ, and every tongue is going to confess him 865 00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,200 as Lord. And that's all going to be to 866 00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:28,880 the glory of God our Father. We bless you. 867 00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,160 I ask your blessing upon these people, God, they, your people, 868 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,400 they the redeemed, they the ones that you saw and you felt we 869 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,120 were worth saving. You shed the blood of your son 870 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:43,760 Jesus on our behalf and that blood keeps us clean. 871 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,800 That gun blood protects us. We just thank you Lord, it keeps 872 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:53,560 heaven open and access to you all through Christ. 873 00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,600 So your blessing upon our families, those that are still 874 00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:02,080 in Australia and South Africa, bring them back home safely. 875 00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,160 Others that are travelling from South Africa back to their homes 876 00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,320 around the world keep them safe at every level. 877 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,560 So we ask all these things with Thanksgiving and praise, 878 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,440 acknowledging that you and you alone are worthy. 879 00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:17,560 Amen. Amen. 880 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,760 Amen. Thank you, Dudley. 881 00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,640 It's amazing. Let's come with faith 882 00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:31,440 expectation to every meeting. Thank you for joining us for 883 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,880 today's message. For more information about The 884 00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:38,080 Way Church, please visit ourwebsite@thewaychurch.com dot 885 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:39,480 AU. Have a blessed day.